Improvement in mucilage-bottles



'proved Fountain Mueilage Clan or Holder;

inch (more -or less) of the bottom of the can, so

'Nrrn raras rmono ATENT IMPROVEMENT IN 4IVIUILAGE-BOTTLES.

` Specification foiming part of Letters Patent No. 75,672, dated March17, 1863.

To all Loh/077i, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. EBAUGH, of Hereford, in the oounty'ofBaltimore and State of Maryland', have invented an lmand I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exa'ot description thereof,reference beinghad to theaecompanying drawing, making part of thisspecification, and representing a central vertical section of the can.The body A of the can may be of any oonveuient or. desirable form7 andis made airtight in all parts except where the opening` in the top ismade for the' fountain-tube, and a vent, a, for the purpose of lettingout the air in filling. This vent-aperture may be very small, andordinarily closed by a bit of sealing-wax or a plug; or it may be largerand olosen with a screw --oap or a stopper, and used, when required, forfilling through. l

The fountain-tube B is made sufficiently broad at the upper end, b, toreadily insert and withdraw the brush Without touching it andsmearingits surface with the muoilage. The lower end, o, however, is quitesmall, substantially as shown, so as to Compress the brush somewhat asit is withdrawn, and there-- by prevent its taking up too much ofthe-mueilage. It should reach within about half an that the brush C canreach down into and be saturated with the mueilage.

The-handle of the brush may terminate in a knob, d, at the upper end,with an enlargement or cork or stopper, f, tot and close the top of thefountain-tube.

Thus constructed the fountain-tube B does not fill with the muoilage,although the can may be full, and as the brush takes out the mueilagefrom the bottom a little air is let into the can, so as to let enoughmuoilage down to fill up to the bottom of the fountaintube.

The advantages of this fountain-can are that the mueilage never driesaway nor sours by exposure to the air, nor daubs the outlet with thebrush, does not spill when the can is overturned, and is not wasted inuse.

What l claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A muoilage can or holder with a fountaintube, B, in combination Withastoppered brush, constructed and operating substantially as and for thepurposes herein specified.

HENRY H. EBAUGH.

Vitnesses:

vJ.`S. BROWN, A. VAN VRANKEN.

